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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of or relating to the head.
  2. adj. Located on, in, or near the head.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Pertaining to the head in any way.
  2. Situated or directed toward the head; connected with or constituting the front or fore part of a body or organ: opposed to caudal: as, the cephalic surface of the liver or diaphragm; the cephalic end of a vertebra; the cephalic segment of a centiped.
  3. In human anatomy, the bending of the head of the embryo forward or downward upon the trunk.
  4. n. A remedy for headache or other disorders in the head.
  5. n. In phonetics, a so-called ‘head’ or ‘cerebral’ sound.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Of or referring to the head; headlike
  2. adj. Of, or pertaining to, the cephalon

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the head. See the Note under anterior.
  2. n. A medicine for headache, or other disorder in the head.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. of or relating to the head

Etymologies

  1. From Middle French céphalique, from Latin cephalicus ("head"), from Ancient Greek κεφαλικός (kephalikos, "capital"), from κεφαλή (kephalē, "head"). (Wiktionary)
  2. French céphalique, from Latin cephalicus, from Greek kephalikos, from kephalē, head; see ghebh-el- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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